Science: Saucer Blue Book

The Air Force has been so bedeviled by reports of flying saucers (the
little-men-from-Venus kind) that it is almost afraid to talk about
saucer-shaped aircraft. Last week Secretary of the Air Force Donald A.
Quarles released a few well-guarded words about a vertically rising
jet-craft that will soon be tested by Ryan Aeronautical Co. of San
Diego. He admitted that it might be mistaken for some sort of flying
saucer.

"We are now entering," said Quarles, "a period of aviation technology in
which aircraft of unusual configuration and flight characteristics will
begin to appear." As an example of aircraft-to-come, he told...